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Reservations are now being accepted for the banquet being held as part of the Vandalia Community High School All-School Reunion.
The reunion is held during the VCHS homecoming weekend, with the banquet set for the evening of Saturday, Sept. 22.
A social hour with a cash bar and hors d'oeuvres will be held from 5-6:30 p.m., and dinner is from 6:30-8 p.m.

• Codie M. Barker, 21, 627 N. First St., Vandalia, was arrested on Aug. 20 for failure to appear in court on a charge of operation of an uninsured motor vehicle. Bond was $1,000.
• Jose C. Marti, 38, Orlando, Fla., was arrested on Aug. 20 on a Kankakee County warrant for driving while his license is suspended. Bond was $5,000.
• Steven D. Cox, 34, Decatur, was arrested on Aug. 20 for failure to appear in court on felony and traffic charges. Bond was $13,000, and he was turned over to the Illinois Department of Corrections on an IDOC warrant.

✔ TOPS IL 2490 will meet from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at First Baptist Church in Ramsey. Weigh-in is from 9-9:30 a.m. For more information, contact Dovie Heaton-Bergin at 283-1729.
✔ TOPS IL 1872, Ramsey, will meet at the Christian Church in Ramsey. Weigh-in is at 6:20 p.m., and the meeting is at 7 p.m.
Friday, August 24

1997 – Judge Dennis Middendorff of Carlyle denied a motion filed by attorneys for convicted murderer Stuart Heaton that asked for new DNA tests on evidence from the 1991 murder scene.
WARECO employees Stacy Younker and Cody Miller prevented a disaster when they quickly extinguished a fire at one of the gas pumps at the station on West Gallatin Street.
Merle and Georgi Adermann of Vandalia were celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary.

Phebe Tucker and Thomas Cunningham were married at Prickett’s Fort on the Monongalia River in April 1776.
As a young family, they settled near Thomas’ brother, Edward Cunningham, with their log cabins being 60 feet apart on Bingamon Creek. The nearest settlement was 10 miles away.

With the Kaskaskia River shrinking to a trickle and Vandalia Lake levels dropping due to this summer’s drought, it’s a prime time to think about alternative water sources. Add to those woes the ongoing problems the city has had keeping its river intake functioning, and the possibility of another source is particularly attractive.

Though the budget year is nearly two months old, the state funding picture still isn’t clear enough for the Vandalia Board of Education to approve a final 2012-13 budget for the district.
And, according to all signs coming from Springfield, it won’t be a pretty budget when it is finalized next month.